Teaching Children to Learn
Activity 1
Activity name: Color Recognition
Age group: 4-year-olds
(What should the child know or be able to do at the end of the activity? Why are you doing this activity?)The children should be able to complete this activity and know all of their colors.
Developmental domain addressed: (cognitive, physical, communication, social/emotional, adaptive -- include a short paragraph explaining how the activity focuses on the chosen domain)
Color recognition is a basic part of cognitive development. It requires basic analytic skills to interpret sensory images and associate a consistent word (the name of the color). Color association is a valuable skill to use throughout one's life and has certain didactic value as well. Utilizing finger painting as a mechanism for this process is akin to making that process fun and evocative of toys, which correlate to childhood cognitive development (Bradely, 1985, p. 11).
Environmental arrangement:
The students will be arranged throughout the classroom so that they are comfortably sitting next to a piece of paper and a palette of finger paint.
List of materials:
White board
Finger paints
Paper on which to paint
Multicolored markers
Sequence of events (be very specific!):
The lesson will begin with the teacher explaining the various colors to the children. The teacher will utilize examples of each color with her multicolored markers. The pedagogue will then instruct the students to draw a line with the color that she names while the colors are still on the board. Finally, the teacher will...
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